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mcielok14-Alexandrite
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October 28, 2013
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How can I imprt a solidworks file to creo without loosing the Features?

  • October 28, 2013
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Hi Everyone. Does anybody knows what kind of file can be open from solid works to creo without loosing the features from the model tree?

 

Thanks


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Best answer by GerardLeclercq

Why not customizing the file DXFDWG.con file instead of using macros?

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GerardLeclercq1-Visitor
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October 28, 2013

Not possible (for the moment, I hope). SeeSearchable Viewables - PDF

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mcielok14-AlexandriteAuthor
14-Alexandrite
October 28, 2013

Thank you Gerald, laconic, but time saving. Here's why I couldn't find a way. How it is possible that a sophisticated CAD misses this feature?

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Bye

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GerardLeclercq1-Visitor
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October 28, 2013

"The content linked seems no longer available." Try again, I had a lot of difficulties to insert that link. This is idea 3102.

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awall-21-Visitor
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December 30, 2013

Hi,

I have another question. Whether a PDF printing SDK is necessary or not for the work? I am testing about the related programs these days. I want to look for a fine professional 3rd party PDF toolkit whose way of processing is simple and fast to help me with the related work. It will be better if it is totally manual and can be customized by users according to our own favors. Do you have any ideas about it? Or any good suggestion? Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Arron

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MaxKublin1-Visitor
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December 30, 2013

I think the answer was given by Friedhelm already.

Drafting and Annotation are printing like a *plotter*, which means they are actually *plotting* vectors and arcs

for *everything* (geometry and text).

Therefore, *no* Software Package will help you to create your PDF with searchable text,

unless you find a package whichncan directly convert a MI-File into PDF without using Drafting and/or Annotation.

Regards,

Max

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    lfortner14-Alexandrite
    14-Alexandrite
    December 30, 2013

    Ok Max.

    We did understand how Drafting/Annotation are producing PDF right now.

    Probably we do expect PTC will enhance this process to produce searchable PDF by its own.

    After all, Microsoft Word 2010 has already a bundled feature to save a DOCX into PDF, which is searchable. I would like to proceed the same.

    I put this wish to all my best for the upcoming new year 🙂

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      GerardLeclercq1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      August 13, 2014

      Another advantage of having true characters in the PDF is that the viewing in a PDF viewer is of outstanding quality.

      In some circonstances, a PDF done by Drafting is almost not readable when the page is fit in the viewer window.

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      FriedhelmK17-Peridot
      17-Peridot
      August 13, 2014

      Yes, would be nice if that could be realized.

      In the implementation the main problem might be that drafting and annotation for the fonts of text and dimensioning using internal character definitions.
      That means no Windows True Fonts.
      Other older CAD programs make it in the same way, for example ACAD.
      in order to obtain real, editable text in a document there must be embedded True Fonts.
      But what other Windows application knows hp_block_v, hp_i3098_v and all the others.
      You'd have to change the whole text system.
      And what happens to all the old drawings?
      How could them make this compatible?

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      GerardLeclercq1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      August 14, 2014

      Easy to say but maybe not to implement:

      When using Windows fonts such as Arial in Drafting, the translation in PDF should be possible.

      When using Drafting fonts such as hp_block_v, a new Windows font can be created.

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      GerardLeclercq1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      August 27, 2014

      There could be a way, but there are some customizations to do. From Drafting, store as SVG. Open the SVG file in Inkscape (free) and save as PDF. The texts are selectable.

      But text attributes are not correctly translated (ratio at least). Where does that come from? I think that the Drafting to SVG translator is faulty. Because viewing the same SVG file generated by Drafting in Inkscape, FireFox or Internet Explorer, the text attributes are not correct.

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      mcielok14-AlexandriteAuthor
      14-Alexandrite
      August 27, 2014

      Drafting translator being faulty is one of the issues! It seem that in the resulting pdf, texts are searchable after replacing Drafting fonts with suitable ones, migrating from mi to dwg and printing the pdf. Unfortunately, saving dwg files with such fonts gives wrong text proportions, ever since I've been using ME10/Drafting.

      Well, I suppose that now my chief would expect me to make drawings... Shouldn't PTC be supposed to provide for this matter?

      Tomorrow I'm going to try to first save dwg and then replace the fonts. I'll advise the results.

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      GerardLeclercq1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      August 28, 2014

      When I did the test, I used Arial font since it exists both in Drafting and in Windows. I was reaaly surprised that (at least) the ratio was not correctly translated.Indeed, I thought that it should be simpler for Drafting to translate Arial than hp_i3098_v for example. Moreover, when you use Arial for the first time, Drafting creates it on the fly from Windows font file. It is not really understandable.

      I did also the test with dwg by using DraftSigh. Same problem of ratio. And when I print in PDF from DraftSigh, the text is not searchable.

      What application do you use to get searchable text from dwg files?

      Which fonts?

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